Quotes About Ability

#1. There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever ... money, for instance, or war.

Saul Bellow

#2. If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

Franz Grillparzer

#3. Papa's always had the ability to remember the good things and let the bad ones go."
"Not a bad ability."
" ... I'm not sure. I think we have to remember it all before we can forgive it.

Madeleine L'Engle

#4. I think exploring the Internet's - and the Web's - ability to facilitate personal linkages is remarkable; and expect to see additional social networking applications and services emerge.

Vint Cerf

#5. Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things ... one of the beginnings of the human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority, its indispensable

Christopher Hitchens

#6. Your success is no longer about your ability to do what you are told, and do it well.

Seth Godin

#7. In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.

Ramez Naam

#8. What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he sees one.

Criss Jami

#9. One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.

Vernor Vinge

#10. Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires.

Yoshida Kenko

#11. There's a reason why people shouldn't talk at four in the morning. Exhaustion eliminates the ability to lie. It demolishes the ability to tiptoe around the truth. Emotions are too exposed and real. Heightened to the point of explosion.

Katie McGarry

#12. If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.

John Wooden

#13. The Bible, most influential book, which have the ability to transform many lives.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

Bryant McGill

#15. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader.

Anne Lamott

#16. The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.

Sheryl Crow

#17. Clearly drive, IQ, and hard work are incredibly important. But ultimately what matters most is resilience
the ability to quickly rebound from failures, indeed to see failure as a stepping stone to success.

Arianna Huffington

#18. [A] competent magician should have the ability to stand still at a bus stop with closed eyes and have the entire universe disappear apart from a single blazing visualised sigil or muttered spell.

Peter J. Carroll

#19. Relationships are most likely to fail when we don't address problems or hold our partner accountable for unfair or irresponsible behavior ... the ability to clarify our values, beliefs, and life goals
and then to keep our behavior congruent with them
is at the heart of a solid marriage.

Harriet Lerner

#20. We're at a moment where people are rediscovering their ability to design, to create (engineer)and in essence, to become a true maker.

Brit Morin

#21. The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#22. Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another. It is being able to place a cicle of power at your own feet and not take power from someone else's circle.

Lynn Andrews

#23. The Bengali tends to run to brains rather than brawn and does not take kindly to the discipline and order of a hard life; at the same time, he lacks neither courage nor ability, and shines in the higher ranks."

Sir Charles Tegart

Manoshi Bhattacharya

#24. The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.

Alan Greenspan

#25. I'd like to feel okay all the time
to have the ability to sit and function without feeling so much pressure, without feeling as though blood is going to spurt from my eyes and fingers and toes if I don't do something.

Matthew Quick

#26. Grace equals ability. God gives us grace to match our call. When we do our own thing, we do it on our own. When we follow His leading, He always supplies the grace and the energy to do what He's calling us to do.

Joyce Meyer

#27. If you're not messing up every now and then at practice, you're not doing anything above your ability to progress.

Crazy Legs

#28. Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them.

Peter Senge

#29. I feel like I always had an ear. I have the ability and the gift to hear a song and really play it in a matter of five to 10 minutes and make my own version out of it. So it's always been easy playing by ear.

Jeremih

#30. The fact of playing an instrument and singing ... that I can try to make my dream of singing and becoming a professional musician come true is linked probably to the fact that I traveled a lot, which gave me an open mind and an ability to push my limits.

Rokia Traore

#31. As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us
but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience.

Jostein Gaarder

#32. People who are religious should be glad, since not everyone is blessed with the ability to believe in a higher order.

Anne Frank

#33. One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

Alvin Toffler

#34. The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability.

Mercy Otis Warren

#35. I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

Soleil Moon Frye

#36. If you ask a negative, unanswerable question, you will get a negative, impractical answer. The question you ask determines the focus of your thinking, your focus determines your attitude, and your attitude determines your ability to take action.

Dorothy Leeds

#37. Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Abraham Lincoln

#38. What was invented with civilization was the ability of some to deny sensuality to others.

Richard Manning

#39. If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there wouldn't have been a bad to get out of. No one could have made one. You could have written about possibility of one, but not have constructed it.

Ken Robinson

#40. Intelligence is only as good as the consumer's ability to believe and utilize it.

Antonio J. Mendez

#41. As someone who understands why you did this, and admires your ability to actually accomplish it, I am-pleading with you. Cinder. Please. Take me back."
She filled up her lungs. "No.

Marissa Meyer

#42. Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.

Lawrence Eagleburger

#43. There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds. But the ability to play non-zero-sum games was another watershed.

Jonathan Haidt

#44. I literally cannot even. I can't even. I am unable to even. I have lost my ability to even. I am so unable to even.

Tyler Oakley

#45. If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you'll have a wonderful time doing it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#46. You never can't put bad down, there is always something tricky... nothing is so easy if it's easy. It's in the state of possibility of the ability to be in a trap which they want to put you... so they succeed. - Better Next time think!

Deyth Banger

#47. I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.

Karl Marlantes

#48. Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may be especially true for seniors, as the ability to synthesize vitamin D in the skin declines with age.

Andrew Weil

#49. I note at the age of ten a fully developed ability not quite to enjoy myself, a capacity I have retained intact ever since.

Alan Bennett

#50. That no matter what happens, loving someone to the best of your ability is the right thing to do. It's the only thing to do.

Marisa De Los Santos

#51. The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Confucius

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Evildoers of the world, beware.

Kelly Oram

#53. Would it be nice to look like Gemma Ward? Sure. But I have an incredible brain and the ability to write, and I make people laugh pretty much every day. I wouldn't give that up for anything. Those are the things I've learned to value.

Rosie Waterland

#54. True competence is based on one's own ability to observe.

L. Ron Hubbard

#55. Actually, people with the fixed mindset expect ability to show up on its own, before any learning takes place.

Carol S. Dweck

#56. History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#57. If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.

Halle Berry

#58. He seemed never to have acquired a skill that we all need: the ability to make another person worry about us.

Stephen Grosz

#59. The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

William Hazlitt

#60. Drinking wine is easy: tilt glass and swallow. Really tasting wine is more of a challenge. You need the proper tools and environment, the ability to concentrate, a good memory and a vivid imagination.

Marvin Shanken

#61. That's a very admirable quality in a wife. The ability to admit she is in the wrong.

Lindsay Armstrong

#62. Past life knowledge is not the wedding album of existence. Past life remembrance in Buddhism is the ability to bring a greater awareness we had in another life into this life.

Frederick Lenz

#63. We are part of the universe that has developed a remarkable ability: We can hold an image of the world in our minds. We are matter contemplating itself.

Sean Carroll

#64. We were given our lives to live to the fullest of our ability; come out of that dark and musty hole and begin to live.

Barbara Hart

#65. Health is not luck.
We have an innate ability to maintain good health if we establish the optimal environment for healing.

Joel Fuhrman

#66. There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Thomas A. Edison

#67. Not branded dresses, expensive perfumes, studded sandals, glamorous accessories, the true beauty of a woman is her smile, willpower, confidence, intelligence and her ability to survive and rule with pride in a man's world.

Happy Woman's Day !

Harshada Pathare

#68. One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

Bill Toomey

#69. People's emotions are rarely put into words , far more often they are expressed through other cues.
the key to intuiting another's feelings is in the ability to read nonverbal channels , tone of voice , gesture , facial expression and the like

Daniel Goleman

#70. I think humans are only capable of small moments of honesty. Then they get tired and back away. It's something to foster, this ability to keep it for longer. How to keep being honest and aware.

Laura Pritchett

#71. Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate and to connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.

Daniel H. Pink

#72. Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.

Lou Holtz

#73. What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything we have lost can we discover that we have in fact survived; that our spirits are indestructible.

Aurora Levins Morales

#74. A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal.

Frederick Lenz

#75. The world moved in horrifying slow motion; Locke, who was no stranger to a beating, was cursed with the uncanny ability to recognize one just before it ceased to be theoretical.

Scott Lynch

#76. The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly

Irving Chernev

#77. I just had this feeling that, if I were to get into a fight, somehow I would have the ability to fight back, just based on playing 'Street Fighter' for so many years of my life. It's almost like I actually learned martial arts.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#78. Once any of us conclude- 'That's just the way I am,' we give up our ability to change.

Donald L. Hallstrom

#79. The school reports say you don't concentrate. But you don't concentrate because you are thinking. They don't understand that. They think intelligence is all about soaking up knowledge. But true intelligence- the intelligence that really counts- is the ability to interpret facts to make them you own.

Chris Priestley

#80. It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.

Hillary Clinton

#81. Leadership is about relationships - whether it's a business deal with a client or a conversation with a family member - our ability to understand and appreciate individual uniqueness and perspective is paramount to living a fulfilled life.

Steve Knox

#82. Go back to the Dalai Lama. He says, I think technology has really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

Amy Poehler

#83. She was an infallible prophetess, and these powers came from her ability to look into the patterns of the universe.

Margaret Atwood

#84. America allows us to be able to dream, then gives us the ability to achieve those dreams.

Rick Mears

#85. Leadership is the ability to elicit extraordinary performance from ordinary people.

Brian Tracy

#86. If we are ever going to develop an ability to hear from God and be led by His Spirit, we have to start making our own decisions and trust the wisdom God has deposited in our own heart.

Joyce Meyer

#87. Breathing affects your respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological, gastrointestinal, muscular, and psychic systems, and also has a general affect on your sleep, memory, ability to concentrate, and your energy levels.

Donna Farhi

#88. What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.

Magnus Carlsen

#89. Others may have more ability than you, they may be larger, faster, quicker, better jumpers ... but no one should be your superior in respect to team spirit, loyalty, enthusiasm, cooperation, determination, industriousness, fight effort, and character.

John Wooden

#90. My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.

Nancy Pearcey

#91. I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.

R. Kelly

#92. Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused ... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences ... Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another.

Taryn Simon

#93. I'm a comedian so I'm not waiting around for someone to write a part for me. I don't have to wait for somebody else to create my next job; I have the ability to basically write my own ticket.

Wanda Sykes

#94. The process of discovering who we are and what we are here to do ... is dependent ... on our ability to stay positive and to find a silver lining in all events.

James Redfield

#95. Perspective is a powerful attitude, providing the ability to see circumstances, no matter how challenging, as an opportunity.

Chris Vonada

#96. I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology - and our ability to accentuate and exploit them - is going to make the notion of pure competition impossible.

Malcolm Gladwell

#97. I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.

Gary Hume

#98. Her ability to use language, that thing that most separates humans from animals, was leaving her, and she was feeling less and less human as it departed. She's said a tearful good-bye to okay some time ago.

Lisa Genova

#99. You need to build an ability to just be yourself, and not be doing something,

Louis C.K.

#100. Ability is important in our quest for success, but dependability is critical.

Zig Ziglar